Spain 1808-1898
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9780815351061
Subjects: Spain, history
Description: Nineteenth-century Spain deserves wider readership. Bedevilled by lost empires, wars, political instability, and frustrated modernisation, the country appeared backward in relation to northern Europe and even in relation to much of its own geographical periphery. This new history, the first survey of its kind in English in more than a hundred years, offers a fresh perspective on this century, showing how and why elements of backwardness and maternity ran in parallel through Spain. Bounded by the military and imperial crises of 1808 and 1898, this study pays special attention to the experience of war on politics and society, and integrates the latest historical debates in its analysis. -- page [i].